Fuath – III
Fuath – III
Northern Silence Productions
Release Date: 02/01/2026
Review by Metalphysicist
10/10
Fuath is an Atmospheric Black Metal solo project from Andy Marshall, the main man behind Saor (Folk/Black Metal), that released “Amidst the Ruins” in 2025 – which figured on my 2025’s Black Metal Albums Top 5 list. So, I had great expectations on reviewing “III”, released on the second day of January 2026.
It is unusual for a band to release an album on a date that most of the webzines are taking a winter’s break after twelve damn months reviewing plenty of albums for underground’s sake! But it seems to me that Andy Marshall isn’t looking forward to holophotes on “III”. Far from that, it felt to me like Fuath is a one-man band created to give life to the deepest cold side of Andy Marshall, right in the middle of the winter solstice.
And I think that my feeling relates to what is heard on “III”. I mean, which band is up to release an album that has four songs in 42 minutes running time! Let’s take ‘The Sluagh’ as an example: this song is 13:27 min long and it is sung in Gaelic (late Scottish language). That doesn’t sound very appealing to the masses, even by the standards of avant-garde black metal music, right?
But, if you let yourself loose while listening to that song and keep an open mind, it is possible that you’d enjoy this immersive blackened progressive song. Please, don’t get me wrong, ‘The Sluagh’ is full of programming blast beats – sounding beyond the speed of light – and screaming vocals which are mixed on the same level of the other instruments. When I say /instruments/ I am referring to all the multiple layers of noise to reinforce the tremolo and melancholic chord conductions. And, in the middle section and in the end of the song, Andy explores the fast and slow contrasts to give proper dynamics to ‘The Sluaghs’ composition. That is pretty much what you’re going to find out on all the songs on “III”
Fuath’s album “III” is highly recommended to the ones who are into Bathory’s school of Black Metal, specifically the raw and intimidating Bathory’s first self-titled album (“Bathory”, released on 1984). After all, we are all Quarthon’s children of the master’s lessons, and I am proud of that. Great job, Andy Marshall, to keep the Black Metal traditions immaculate and updated on “III’!
TRACKLISTING:
01. The Cailleach
02. Embers of the Fading Age
03. Possessed by Starlight
04. The Sluagh
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